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Eric Holder: It is a crisis of immense proportions.

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
It is a crisis of immense proportions.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Eric Holder describes the severity of violence in Mexico related to drug warfare.

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